A new study released by the progressive think tank Demos on Monday estimated that if retail
workers were given a living wage, hundreds of thousands of Americans
would be lifted out of poverty and the wage boost would significantly
bolster the economy.

The study began by assuming a new “price floor” for retail workers at
America’s largest retailers — amounting to a 27 percent pay raise for
those workers. If companies that employed at least 1,000 workers paid
them a living wage of just $25,000 for full-time, year-round work, more
than 700,000 Americans would make their way out of poverty and an
additional 700,000 would move up near poverty. In all, the wage boost
would affect more than 5 million retail workers.

Demos further estimated that if these low-wage workers got a pay
boost, the economy would grow and create 100,000 more new jobs, boosting
the economy by somewhere between $11.8 and $15.2 billion over the next
year.

There is no free lunch. This interferring with the market is propaganda at its worst. Producetivity is the only way to raise wages. Or have the government give back its 50% take in our productivity. No one want to talk about that. Ask yourself, is high wages and high prices what i want. Remember Guido gets half, or low prices and low wages. Guido get less. What do you think government is pushing???